A glimpse of African-American history hits the big screen once again this fall with the new star-studded film “12 Years A Slave.”

Directed by London native Steve McQueen, the film tells the story of Solomon Northup, a born-free New Yorker kidnapped in 1841 and sold into slavery. As he struggles to adjust to his new life, Northup finally gets a chance at freedom 12 years later when he meets a Canadian abolitionist.

The story, based on Northup’s own autobiography of the same title released in 1853, stars British actor Chiwetel Ejiofor as Northup. The rest of the line-up includes Quvenzhane Wallis, Alfre Woodard, Michael Kenneth Williams and Brad Pitt, who also produced the film.

Check out the movie when it hits theaters Oct. 18. In the meantime, watched the newly released trailer.

Tyler Perry has released the first trailer for his upcoming film Temptation: Confessions of a Marriage Counselor, which is being described as “the definition of passion, desire and seduction.”

“It’s about a woman who starts to get restless in her relationship and her choice to be with another man has a huge effect on the rest of her life,” explains Perry. “She goes on a journey in her career and in her marriage and she ends up in a very different place than she expected.”

This film finds Perry exploring the nature of desire and just how powerful and dangerous a taste of the forbidden can be.

“This is definitely one of the most provocative movies sexually and otherwise that I’ve made,” says the director.

From Ebony.com: When the trailer was released earlier this month for Django: Unchained, Black folks didn’t quite know what to make of it. It’s clear it’s a Quentin Tarantino film—the blood shed, the fast-moving dialogue and the James Brown soundtrack are the Tarantino-esque trimmings we’ve all come to love. But it’s wrapped around—and set in—pre-Civil War America.

But a movie set during slavery? Turns out, this isn’t just another slave movie.The film is still shooting right now, but the hero—played by Academy Award winning actor and comedian Jamie Foxx— is a slave who gets his get back.

Foxx plays who we imagined we’d all be should we have lived through such a horrific time. And that’s exactly the kind of film Reginald Hudlin—Tarantino’s producer on this project—has been longing to see. It doesn’t release until Christmas (they’re still filming in New Orleans right now), but six months out, it’s got the kind of buzz that makes Hollywood studio execs ridiculously happy.

Hudlin who along with actress Kerry Washington previewed an extended seven-minute clip of the film at the National Association of Black Journalists convention on Thursday evening in New Orleans—talks with EBONY.com about the movie, slavery and why Tarantino loves telling our stories.